KO’D BY BIKER
Crash cracks woman’s skull on Queensboro Bridge
A SPEEDING bicyclist slammed into a woman on the Queensboro Bridge — knocking her out cold and fracturing her skull, the Daily News has learned.
Lingbo Shen, 52, said she was walking toward her Queens home in a pedestrian lane of the span when the cyclist crashed into her about 8:30 p.m. Thursday. “Somebody hit me from the back,” she told The News. “I fell. I was unconscious for nearly four hours.”
Shen — a research analyst at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan — awoke just before midnight and found herself in the emergency room at New York Hospital.
She was being treated for a cracked skull, broken collar bone and three fractured ribs. A hematoma was causing her to bleed from her ears.
“I don’t know when I came here, why I came here or how I came here,” she said. “So far, I don’t know who did this.”
The 25-year-old bicyclist, who was not identified, was taken to the same hospital, authorities said. Details on his injuries weren’t immediately available.
The biker told police he was riding downhill and crushed Shen when she stepped into his path. No summonses were issued, police said.
Shen said she’s walked over the bridge regularly for three years. But since the accident, she thinks her days of walking to work over the East River are over.
“I’m scared,” she said. “Emotionally, I’m hurt. I don’t want to walk over there anymore.”
The crash comes a week after a Daily News investigation on speeding and inattentive bicyclists in Central Park. It took reporters just 35 minutes to find 16 bikers riding over the 25-mph speed limit.
On Monday, a blind man walking in a pedestrian lane was struck by leadfooted cyclist Omar Shakir, 30, just above E. 90th St. in the park.
Richard Bernstein, 38 — who is in the city training for his eighth marathon — went to Mount Sinai Medical Center with a fractured pelvis and hip. He also lost some teeth.
Shen was not sure how long she would have to stay at the hospital. She said she suffers from dizzy spells every time she tries to stand.
“They broke a lot of my bones and I don’t even know what to think,” she said. “I’m just sad this happened.”
She said something must be done for the out-of-control bicyclists taking over the city.
“I want people to know and tell bikers to be careful,” she said. “They drive so fast. It’s not right.”